2017: (Baker Rotimi and Shriner Confirming That Race Is Not an Objective Genomic Classifier — A 2017 Study in Scientific Reports by Baker Rotimi and Shriner Demonstrating That Human Ancestry…
(Racialist Thinking Lingering in Genetic Studies — Despite the General View Among Biologists That the Concept of Race Does Not Apply in Explaining Human Variation, Historians Need to Be Aware…
(Geneticists Relying on Outdated Historical Sources — A Related Problem Being That Geneticists When Trying to Correlate Genetics with History Too Often Have Relied on Secondary Rather Than Primary Sources…
(History Not Genetics Determines Language — It Is Our Personal Community Societal and Regional Histories — Where We Have Lived Where We or Our Ancestors Moved To What Groups Might…
(A Warning to Historians — What Genetics Has to Tell Us Can Be Quite Useful but Its Historical Claims Should Always Be Treated with Critical Awareness, the Utility of Genetic…
4000 BCE: (Native Copper Use Preceding Metallurgy — Copper Being Put to Use Before the Development of Actual Metallurgy Because It Also Exists in the Form of "Native Copper" —…
700 BCE: (The Initial Spread of Ironworking via the Great Lakes Bantu — The Arrow on Map 2.6 Pointing to "700 BCE" Marking the Initial Stage of the Spread of…
(Cushitic ≠ Kush — The Crucial Disambiguation That "Cushitic" Spelled with a Capital C as a Language Branch Name Has Nothing to Do with the Ancient Kingdom of Kush Spelled…
2000 BCE and earlier: (The Watermelon's Nilo-Saharan Origins Predating Its Egyptian Material Record — The Currently Known Botanical Evidence Showing the Watermelon to Have Been Well Established in Egypt Before…
3000 BCE: (A Separate East African Domestication of Cowpeas by Southern Cushites — A Separate Domestication of Cowpeas by Southern Cushitic-Speaking Peoples in East Africa Appearing to Have Taken Place…